Example sentences of "[adv] often as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not so often as you , Morse . ’ |
| 2 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |
| 3 | Clerical representatives , after all , sat in it almost as often as their lay counterparts who consented to lay subsidies : in seventeen out of the nineteen of Edward II 's parliaments to which knights and burgesses were summoned there were also clerical proctors present . |
| 4 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 5 | We travelled the length and breadth of the island , stopping to paint as often as we could persuade him to do so … which was n't always easy , as he was so keen that we should see everything . |
| 6 | wants us to go over as often as we can and we try and and often as we can . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's just be together as often as we can , really get to know each other . |
| 8 | We continued to send parcels as often as we could . |
| 9 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
| 10 | Again through the help of kind neighbours I was able to visit him now and again , though not as often as one would have wished . |
| 11 | Not as often as one would like it to be . |
| 12 | Although Betsy and her two younger sisters were reared in one of the better-off families of Saltcoats , she had a love of the sea and ships and from the age of 15 had gone on trips on Clytus as often as her parents allowed . |
| 13 | Among these worlds the probabilities of their state ( i.e. their entropy ) will increase as often as they decrease . |
| 14 | A further great grievance that exists in this force in the Division where I am is that the Section Sergeant dare not enter any Station while he is on duty unless he signs the main station book ; yet the plain clothes P.C.s and Detective Constables , and even uniform P.C.s can go into the Station as often as they think and there is no order that any of them must sign in and out . |
| 15 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |
| 16 | These she kept in an ivory box , and the gods ate from them as often as they wished to renew their youth . |
| 17 | All the stores that could not be moved by native porters or the gallant Timor ponies were destroyed on 22 February and the Company moved south into the mountains , from where they were able to watch an area of 300 square miles ( over 770km 2 ) , patrolling for negative reports as often as they made enemy sightings . |
| 18 | So how do interest groups come into existence as often as they do ? |
| 19 | If they were married , they could make love as often as they pleased . |
| 20 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 21 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 22 | Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition . |
| 23 | If clients are able to pay the bill they can get advice from a solicitor as often as they desire and on whatever topic they choose . |
| 24 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 25 | On their part the workers protested over " oppressions " in the shape of late wage payment , truck , " stoppages " from pay for allegedly deficient workmanship , of effecting wage cuts by increasing the measure of work expected for a " price " , and of deducting excessive charges for rent of equipment and the supply of essential items , as often as they did of employers ' combinations to lower wages . |
| 26 | I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ? |
| 27 | They can come back as often as they like . ’ |
| 28 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 29 | The domestic dog is thought to have evolved from the wolf , yet wolves and other wild dogs bark about as often as they appear at Crufts . |
| 30 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |